Footnotes 2018

January/February (Volume 46, Number 1)

• Philadelphia Pioneered Worldwide Criminal Justice Systems
• Recipients of the 2018 ASA Awards
• Almost Half a Million High School Students Enroll in Sociology Courses Each Year
• A Year of ASA Advocacy Activities
• A Tribute to Neil Smelser, 88th President of the American Sociological Association
• ASA Holds Successful High School Sociology Symposium at NCSS 2017
• 2018 ASA Annual Meeting Tours in Philadelphia
• Evidence of Outstanding Pedagogical Accomplishment: TRAILS Top 10 Downloaded Resources of 2017
• Call for Applications for TRAILS Editorship
• TRAILS Welcomes New Area Editors and Thanks Outgoing Editors
• A Brief Report from the ASA Committee on Publications
• Announcements|
• Death: William “Bill” Pooler
• Obituaries: Allen H. Barton, Olaf Larson, Lee Rainwater, Richard L. Simpson, and Morris “Buzz” Zelditch

April/May (Volume 46, Number 2)

• ASA’s Working Group on Harassment Takes First Steps
• Two New Symposia at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
• Candidates for the 2018 ASA Election
• What Motivates High School Teachers of Sociology to Join the ASA?
• FAD-funded Conference on Intertwined Legacies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Call for Suggestions: Nominees for Elective and Appointed Offices
• Can Anti-Harassment Programs Reduce Sexual Harassment?
• #MeToo and the ASA Working Group on Harassment
• Looking Backward and Forward to the March for Science
• Apply to Participate in the ASA TRAILS Teaching Seminar Program
• ASA Awards Four Grants to Advance Sociology
• Experts Improve Public Understanding of Sociology Through Wikipedia
• Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
• Two Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows
• Announcements
• Funding: Research and Evaluation of Technologies to Improve School Safety
• The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Immigration and Immigrant Integration
• Russell Sage Foundation Computational Social Sciences
• Russell Sage Foundation Integratng Biology and Social Science Knowledge
• Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
• Death: Peter Mandel Hall
• Obituaries: Karen Halnon,Wynona Smutz Garretson Hartley, Gene Sharp, Robert Benjamin Smith, Frank Arved Freudenfeld Steinhart and Devon T. Wade

June/July/August (Volume 46, Number 3)

• 2018 ASA Election Results
• Announcing ASA’s Campaign to Strengthen Inclusion in Sociology
• A Rip in Philadelphia’s Cosmopolitan Canopy
• COSSA 2018 Conference: Advancing Science for Federal Policy
• A Tribute to Stanley Lieberson, 82nd ASA President
• Congratulations to Our New Minority Fellows! Announcing MFP Fellowship Program Cohort 45
• Sociologist Present Their Research on Capitol Hill
• ASA Working Group on Harassment Takes Action
• Sexual Harassment Training: Promises, Pitfalls, and Future Directions
• ASA Anti-Harassment Policy At the ASA Annual Meeting
• Sexual Misconduct Events at the 2018 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
• Wikipedia as Public Sociology: It’s Not What You Think
• 2018 Howery Teaching Enhancements Fund Winners
• Want to Support Teaching and Learning at ASA? Join the TRAILS Area Editor Team!
• Staying Active: ASA Opportunities in Retirement Network and Its Members
• 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia
• Annoucements
• Funding: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program; Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust; and The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives
• Deaths: James W. Balkwell; Gerald Handel; and Ephraim Mizruchi
• Obituaries: Anthony R. Harris, Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, and R. Jay Turner

September/October (Volume 46, Number 4)

• Introducing Mary Romero, 2019 ASA President (Wendy Leo Moore)
• ASA Renews Partnership with SAGE Publishing
• 2018 ASA Award Recipients: Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (Joe Feagin); Dissertation Award (Juliette Galonnier); Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (Kristin Anderson Moore, Child Trends); Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award (Daniel F. Chambliss); Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (Lauren B. Edelman for Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights); Public Understanding of Sociology Award (Adia M. Harvey Wingfield); W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (Elijah Anderson)
• A Tribute to James Short, 75th ASA President: A Pioneer in Criminology (Lorine Hughes and Andrew Papachristos)
• Critical Exploration of Feeling Race at the 2018 ASA Annual Meeting
• Take Advantage of What NSF Has to Offer (Toby Parcel and Joe Whitmeyer)
• Call for ASA Award Nominations
• Making Space for Indigenous Sociology within the Discipline (Kari Marie Norgaard)
• Applications Invited for ASA Editorships
• 2019 Regional/Aligned Sociology Meetings: Sociologists for Women in Society (Winter: Denver, CO); Eastern Sociological Society (Boston, MA); Pacific Sociological Association (Oakland, CA); North Central Sociological Association (Cincinnati, OH); Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, GA); Population Association of America (Austin, TX); Midwest Sociological Society (Chicago, IL); Association of Black Sociologists (New York); Society for the Study of Social Problems (New York); Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (New York); Sociologists for Women in Society (Summer: New York); Association for the Sociology of Religion (New York); Southwestern Social Science Association (San Diego, CA)
• ASA Forum for Public Discussion and Debate (2018 Annual Meeting: Joshua Klugman)
• Funding: Thei Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology; The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants; The American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research; Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grants
• Announcements
• Deaths: Linton “Lin” Freeman
• Obituaries: Jan Hajda, Cedric Herring, James Ryland Hudson, Francois Nielsen, Keith A Roberts, Carmi Schooler, Arthur Stinchcombe

November/December (Volume 46, Number 5)

• ASA Files Amicus Brief Objecting to Inclusion of Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census (C. Matthew Snipp)
• Preview the 2019 ASA Election Candidates
• TRAILS Welcomes Greg Kordsmeier as its New Editor
• ASA Minority Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
• 2019 ASA Student Forum Advisory Board (SFAB): Call for Nominations
• Sorokin Lecture Grants (Applications Invited)
• ASA Section News: Nominations Sought for 2019 Section Awards; Winners of the 2018 Section Awards
• Apply Now to Have Your Class be Part of the ASA TRAILS Teaching Seminar Program!
• Affiliated Groups at the 2019 ASA Annual Meeting
• ASA Awards Four FAD Grants to Advance Sociology
• Avoiding the Job Search from Hell (APAP)
• Practicing Furtive Sociology (Jeffrey Nash)
• Four Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows: Carter Butts, John Casterline, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Elaine Wethington
• Announcements
• Deaths: Devah Pager
• Obituaries: Melvin Wilson Barber Jr., Elliot G. Mishler, William (Bill) L. Yancey

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